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Economics is an inexact science.
The conversion of effect measures to a common metric is an inexact science.
By inexact match, we mean the use of letter names that are similar but not identical to those in the word being spelled.
The curious possibility that inexact or incomprehensive accounts might better describe a poet's spirit seems instructive here.
From this it follows that the procedure presented above is a regularization method and that it therefore works with inexact data.
Typically, in practical implementations, inexact solves result in a much more competitive algorithm.
The upshot is that inexact solves can greatly reduce the cost of each iteration, at the expense of somewhat slower convergence.
Yet empirical calculation, although it is inexact, may be adequate in affairs of practice.
We were also interested in children's use of inexact matches between letter names and phoneme sequences.
